I am a PhD Candidate studying 19th and 20th US History pursing a dual-title PhD with African American Studies. My research focus currently is on the cultural production within the Black Gay Cultural Renaissance of the 1980s era as it relates to questions surrounding the carceral state, public health, and identity in the United States.

Awards

E-Sun Zen Senior Teacher’s Assistant Award

Service

History Graduate Student Association- Vice President 2019-2020

History Graduate Student Association -Treasurer 2018-2019

Publications

Book Reviews

Black. Queer. Southern. Women.: An Oral History by E. Patrick Johnson; in QED A Journal in GLBTQ Worldmaking (Forthcoming)

Vagrants and Vagabonds: Poverty and Mobility in the Early American Republic by Kristin O’Brassil-Kulfan; in the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Forthcoming)

Papers Given

“Deviant Science: The Co-Development of Scientific Racism and Homophobia in Cuba, Mexico, and Brazil” at the Ethnohistory Conference (2019)

“Locked In: (His)Stories from Black Gay Cultural Renaissance of the 1980s Era” at the Organization of American Historians Conference (Solicited) (Upcoming 2020)